Each July, First Story takes a group of 16 students from across England on a week-long residential trip. Hosted by Arvon at their Hebden Bridge centre, it’s an opportunity for students to develop …
Residential
Summer Residential 2023 highlights
The Summer Residential is an opportunity for students who have shown great potential during the First Story Young Writers Programme to develop their confidence, creativity and writing skills in an …
Summer residential 2022 highlights
First Story's annual summer residential provides an incredible opportunity for a small number of Young Writers Programme participants who have shown great promise during the academic year. Students …
Summer 2021 residential highlights: another digital success
Our annual summer residential programme is usually hosted at Lumb Bank, Arvon's idyllic venue in rural West Yorkshire. The pandemic kept us away for a second consecutive year. But after last year's …
Summer 2020 Virtual Residential
Our annual summer residential programme provides an incredible opportunity for a small number of First Story participants who've shown great promise during the academic year, to further develop their …
The First Story Summer Residential 2019
In twenty acres of steep woodland overlooking a Pennine valley sits Lumb Bank, an impressive eighteenth-century millowner's house that once belonged to Ted Hughes. For six days in July, Lumb Bank was …
The First Story Residential Anthology 2016
The First Story Residential Anthology 2016 has arrived! And it’s crammed full of the thoughts and voices of forty-seven students inspired by five glorious days of writing.For each student, the …
The First Story Residential Anthology 2015
The First Story Residential Anthology 2015 has finally arrived. It is bursting with the voices of the amazing 78 students who spent a week writing on the First Story Summer Residential Course at …
What’s it like at the Residential?
During our 2015 summer residential programme, at the Arvon centre in Shropshire, we interviewed First Story students about their experience of participating in the programme. They talked about the …
The First Story Residential Anthology 2014
We are very proud to present the First Story Residential Anthology 2014. It has been carefully compiled from all the pieces our First Story students wrote and read out loud with such aplomb at …
The First Story Summer Residential 2013
Nettlecombe Court, a 16th century estate on the fringes of Exmoor National Park, provided a spectacular setting for our summer residential in July. Sixty talented First Story students from …
